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Guest: Thea Polancic

People start businesses to make a difference in the world. They have an impulse to solve a need. Over time they can move toward profit generation and protection.
Conscious Capitalism is about returning to the roots of doing something that matters. There are more and more people starting businesses because they want to do something that matters to them. This is a movement/philosophy that allows businesses to transform.
It is business 2.0. What we relied on for competitive advantage is no longer sufficient. Your purpose and values are the things they can’t copy and paste. We are also unapologetically profit motivated.

Thea and Maureen discuss:
1. the four pillars of conscious capitalism
2. what does personal conscious capitalism look like
3. what concrete actions individuals can take to get started
4. what concrete actions organizations can take to get started

Guest: Maryanna Klatt

Maryanna Klatt is an accomplished researcher looking at the connection of mindfulness and performance across multiple populations and organizations.  The interview focuses on Maryanna’s work with mindfulness based interventions and how leaders can use them to improve their effectiveness and encourage their organizations to use it to impact work groups beyond the impact on individual leaders. This concept is particularly important in helping leaders manage the stress associated with the volume of change organizations are currently facing and that leaders are responsible to anticipate and manage. Maryanna’s work is highly research based – Her program, “Mindfulness in Motion” is an evidenced –based approach to stress reduction in the workplace. Topics include:  1. Maryanna’s research findings.  2. Discussing specifics of what mindfulness is and how leaders can use as well as the results they can expect.  3. Balancing mindfulness practices to reduce stress and improve performance while minimizing time invested in the practice.

Guest: Bill Wulf & James Svagerko

Dr. Wulf and Jim Svagerko (Metcalf & Associates Healthcare Coaching Practice Lead) talk about the leading work Central Ohio Primary Care (300 physicians) is doing and preparing for in the next five years with health care reform accompanied by new innovations in medical care. We discuss how COPC became a leader in their field and what they are doing to shape how the field of medicine and how it is practiced (and led) into 2020.

Guests: Jim Ritchie-Dunham & Dan Mushalko

Vibrancy and Ecosynomics are important topics for organizations that want to create engaged employees and drive strong business results. One of the vibrancy community’s goals is to identify the highest vibrancy organization and highlight what they are doing so others can benefit from the success of the highest vibrancy organizations. This interview with Jim Ritchie-Dunham and Dan Mushalko looks at WCBE public radio station in Columbus, Ohio. WCBE is an organization that has tested high on the vibrancy scale while the parent organization scored as less vibrant. Much of the difference in scores can be attributed to the deliberate actions taken by the General Manager, Dan Mushalko to address issues that are a “drag” on the stations vibrancy. A key focus of this discussion will be creating vibrant departments or units within a large organization even when the parent is not focused on vibrancy. Dan and Jim discusses his success factors driving vibrancy.

Guest: Christopher Cooke, Sheila Cooke, Carla Morelli & Jams Svagerko

As leaders one of the foundations for effective performance is self-knowledge and self-management. We recommend assessment tools to help us make sense of what we are learning and also to get feedback from others to expose possible blind spots. During the show, Christopher and Sheila work with the coaches, Carla and Jim to help them understand their 360 degree data from the LeaderView self-assessment. Additionally, they: • help coachees understand how to interpret the data from their peers. • Prepare them to have conversations with their peers — how to get the most out of those conversations?

Guest: Christopher Cooke, Sheila Cooke, Carla Morelli & James Svagerko

As leaders one of the foundations for effective performance is self-knowledge and self-management. We recommend assessment tools to help us make sense of what we are learning and also to get feedback from others to expose possible blind spots. During the show, Christopher and Sheila work with the coaches, Carla and Jim They: – Invite coachees to tell them how their peer conversations went. What did they learn? How has their relationship shifted? • Invite the peers of the coachees to participate and interview them about their experience. • How has this experience changed engagement at work for coachees and peers? Has there been a ripple effect beyond them? • What can we learn by looking at the data from the listening audience?

Guest: Dr. Dale Meyerrose

As the organizational ecosystem continues to change, board directors and trustees must better understand the nature of their roles and how they are changing to address the increased complexity they face. Dr. Dale Meyerrose explores the role of board members in depth then explores some of the responsibilities. During the second segment, Dale discusses an innovative way to think about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis SWOT as it applies to cyber security. He integrates and aligns an analysis of cyber security and other strategic differentiators across all four quadrants in the SWOT. During the third segment, we discuss leadership depreciation and how effective leaders look at leadership across the SWOT analysis and how they update their approach to leadership. Dale shares how he navigated a distinguished military, government, corporate, and nonprofit career by continually reinventing himself.

Guest: Joe Gallo

As effective leaders, it is critical to recognize and anticipate market shifts and proactively position companies to be nimble, but stable, during these times. Joe Gallo is known for his ability to shape companies to thrive in the face of industry transition. He is also community focused – building community partnerships. During the interview we explore Joe’s experience with large scale industry change and how community involvement has contributed to the success of the Dispatch Printing Company. We discuss: 1. The bulk of you career has been spent in companies and industries that were either emerging like the internet or changing like media. What qualities do you think are most important to drive change in this environment? 2. Your work at the Dispatch Printing companies leverages the community as a whole – building on public and private partnerships – can you share some of that work and why you think it contributes to a healthy ecosystem and translates to business success?

Guest: Mike Figliuolo

As part of the thought leader series, Mike will share his insights about the 12 characteristics of great leaders and what makes them great. He will share his personal experiences as well as the work is doing with clients. He will answer the following questions. • Are great leaders made or born? • You write that many if not most of us are good leaders, but few are truly great. Given that accurate self-analysis is very difficult, how do you know how good of a leader you really are? • Of the 12 characteristics of great leaders that you cite in your article, which ones really resonate with you personally? In other words, which one or two do you consider the most important features of top leaders?

Season 2 Episode 40

Guest: Deborah Zucker

As part of the thought leader series, talks about the importance of vitality to leadership effectiveness. Physical health and vitality provide leaders a strong foundation to meet the challenge of stressful jobs and full lives. Deborah Zucker discusses how vitality connects to leadership then walk through the 9 keys to deep vitality with concrete examples. The discussion moves beyond a sole focus on physical health as the only key to vitality and explores topics such as living a life that is aligned with purpose. She explores concepts like curiosity and experimentation that enable leaders to craft programs that support their personal vitality and commitments. Her approach makes vitality practical for busy leaders who know they need to do more but can’t find an approach that works with their busy lives.